I’m so sorry to hear this has happened! I hope you’re feeling better!
You’ll crush this- show that ticker who’s boss 
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I’ve got nothing smart to say man, but glad to hear you’re ok. You’re a strong motherfucker.
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I am, quite a bit. And thank you.
Eh, we’re at a bit of a standoff right now.
All my life I’ve been told to listen to my heart. Well, it has my attention.
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Thank you.
I’m surrounded by some very good and supportive people.
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I have no wisdom, either, just a sincere relief that you’re okay.
It’s too bad you didn’t grab a before picture before the big “intermittent fast” at the hospital.
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What a scare, glad to hear that you are okay!
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Just imagine a potsticker with brown hair, and that was pretty much me. . 
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If you’d taken a pic and now could get to egg roll with brown hair, you could win!
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Thank you. 
And so it begins…
We had a great snowfall the other day. Kiddo wants to ride this tomorrow. We/he will, but it will be sitting down.
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Wow! That sounds like some shit. Glad you are feeling better.
Let that boy go for it!
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You’re very open and honest about your fear, and I think that’s super brave of you. Glad you’re okay, keep fighting.
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I have to be. I played a game of ignoring or denying it for a long time and it just never worked. It always finds its way out in one form or another.
Me and my brother were just talking about that earlier. He said that growing up it was like my flight response was just broken. I learned early and often to replace fear with agression.
No, you don’t. Plenty of people spend more years than you’ve been alive being afraid and wallowing in self-pity. Most of us have grown up believing that bravery is the absence of fear, when it is the opposite.
To do something you are not afraid of requires no bravery whatsoever. To be afraid of something and to do it anyway - that is bravery.
For people - if I may be so bold as to draw parallels between our histories of addiction - like us, safety and comfort lie in the very things that destroy us and the people around us.
You are feeling vulnerable, and our default mode when feeling that way, ironically, is to self-destruct further (if you haven’t dealt with true addiction, this will all sound like gibberish). But here you are, smiling with your child next to a Christmas tree. Because you are brave.
, bro.
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Back atcha!
And thanks. Didn’t mean to leave that hangin.
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Holy shit Pete if you’d have told me they were starving you I’d have brought Burgatory and bribed a nurse to feed it to you.
Once again glad you didn’t die. Stay that way (not dead).
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Also, if only we knew a cardiac researcher who lifted and lived in the burg… @ActivitiesGuy . He could tell you what you’re doing wrong!
It was just a really crappy product of scheduling due to reduced operating capacities.
Actually, he might be familiar with the guys/gals in the professional group. I dunno if it’s a small world, but it isn’t that big either.
I’m cracking up though at the imagery of busting in to the cardiac floor with a giant bag of burgers! That would be right up there with the looks I got walking into cardiac rehab eating a bag of doritos and drinking a gatorade!
I needed the sodium!
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A nice ride tonight. Nothing crazy, just testing the waters.
Did like 6.something miles in 28 minutes including cool down. I’m somewhat accustomed to this pace and distance, so it should be easy to guage if anything is better, worse, or no different.
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